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Druggist and Scale

Date: 04 21 1942
Description: Druggist Stanley Meyers pauses while weighing a prescription on the pharmacy's scale.
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Titan 15-30 H.P. Tractor Pulling Three Grain Drills

Date: 1917
Description: Two farmers pulling three grain drills with an International 15-30 H.P. or Titan 12-25 tractor.
Postcard

Kansas Equal Suffrage

Date: 1912
Description: Depiction of a man and a woman each putting their votes into a ballot box, touting equal suffrage: "For a better government of the people, by the people, a...
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Camera Crew Films Farmers Harvesting Corn

Date: 09 20 1928
Description: Camera crew from the Cloud County Farm Bureau filming farmers harvesting corn with a Farmall tractor. An International truck used by the crew is parked to ...
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Blue Ribbon Rebuilt Tractors

Date: 12 29 1938
Description: Two service technicians inspecting parts from a disassembled Farmall tractor. The men are taking part in International Harvester's blue ribbon rebuilt trac...
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way

Date: 1886
Description: Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean....
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International School Bus

Date: 05 12 1924
Description: Children riding an International school bus servicing Florence schools in Kansas.
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International School Bus

Date: 05 12 1924
Description: Two buses with children on board leaving a school in Quinter, Kansas. One is an International bus serving Quinter Consolidated schools. Three people are s...
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McCormick-Deering No. 41 Harvester-Thresher in Field

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of a McCormick-Deering No. 41 harvester-thresher (combine) hitched to a tractor in a field. Original caption reads: "While the no. 41 is not ...
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Service Shop of International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1930
Description: Mechanic working on a tractor in the service station at T.A. Rhudy and Son, an International Harvester farm equipment and truck dealership.
Painting

12th Wisconsin Marching to Fort Riley

Date: 04 24 1862
Description: Watercolor view of Manhattan, Kansas, from the bluff westward. The watercolor portrays the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers on their way to Fort Riley, on April ...
Painting

12th Wisconsin Marching through Tecumseh

Date: 04 1862
Description: Watercolor of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers marching through on their way to Fort Riley, April 1862. Created by John Gaddis of Company E.
Painting

Fort Lincoln

Date: 1862
Description: Fort Lincoln, Kansas, when the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers arrived on their march from Fort Scott to Lawrence. A watercolor by John Gaddis of Company E.
Painting

12th Wisconsin in Topeka

Date: 05 1862
Description: Topeka, Kansas, when the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers came marching through the town on their way to Fort Riley, May 1863. Watercolor by John Gaddis of E Com...
Painting

Ossawattamie, Kansas

Date: 03 1862
Description: Ossawattamie, Kansas, as it appeared at the time the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer's passed through on their march from Leavenworth to Fort Scott in March of 18...
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Cowgirl

Date: 1909
Description: A cowgirl, outfitted with her holstered pistol and standing by a horse. Caption reads: "The Belle of the Ranch."
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Packinghouse Workers Strike

Date: 04 1948
Description: As an empty truck is entering the Cudahy Packing Company plant in Kansas City, Kansas, striking United Packinghouse employees threaten the drivers by appea...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: A Kansas Air Ship

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of a giant grasshopper lifting an anchored basket with a baby girl inside. The rope tethered to the basket has a large American flag attached ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Great Sport Fishing

Date: 1910
Description: Photomontage of three fishermen in a rowboat, seen from behind, trying to reel in giant fish. A shadowy forest is visible on the opposite side of the river...

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